https://redstate.com/author/jasonmattera/feedConservative News & Politicsen-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 18:46:05 -0400<![CDATA[Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders is a different kind of socialist: the kind who will partake in the capitalist venture of freely exchanging money for products… at least when it comes to selling his own book.]]>Thu, 19 May 2011 14:00:43 -0400<![CDATA[Jason Mattera]]>https://redstate.com/jasonmattera/2011/05/19/socialist-senator-sanders-hawks-his-book-like-an-evil-capitalist-n39077<![CDATA[&#8220;The balanced budget amendment has good aspects, but it is simply not good enough in dealing with fundamental constitutional change for our country.&#8221; And thus with that 23-word statement in 1997, Democrat Sen. Robert Torricelli of New Jersey sunk conservative spirits. No longer did the U.S. Senate have the two-thirds it needed to enshrine a fundamental principle of governing into the highest law of the land: that politicians should pay for what they spend.]]>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:16:53 -0500<![CDATA[Jason Mattera]]>https://redstate.com/jasonmattera/2011/03/07/the-return-of-the-balanced-budget-amendment-n38208<![CDATA[Obama must think we’re fools.]]>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:00:38 -0500<![CDATA[Jason Mattera]]><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]><![CDATA[Jim Jordan]]>https://redstate.com/jasonmattera/2011/01/27/video-gutting-federal-spending-n37751<![CDATA[Bobby Jindal wasted no time assessing this administration&#8217;s approach to fighting terrorism, mocking Obama&#8217;s strategy as a &#8220;treatise on social justice.&#8221; In part two of his exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS, the Louisiana Governor argued that Obama&#8217;s inability to talk honestly about radical Islam stems from the President&#8217;s erroneous perception of why the threat even exists.]]>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:00:44 -0500<![CDATA[Jason Mattera]]>https://redstate.com/jasonmattera/2010/11/30/gov-jindal-calls-obamas-national-security-strategy-dumb-and-dangerous-n37145<![CDATA[It seems like an insurmountable task for GOP candidates to take out the liberal fixtures of Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Rangel, and Barney Frank in congressional elections, but how about making them part-time workers instead? Perhaps that’s one way to minimize the amount of unpopular legislation coming out of Washington these days. Bobby Jindal thinks so. According to him, it’s about time we slice and dice the number of hours lawmakers have in a work day.]]>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:30:24 -0500<![CDATA[Jason Mattera]]>https://redstate.com/jasonmattera/2010/11/23/video-gov-jindal-make-congressmen-part-time-n37095<![CDATA[When Speaker Nancy Pelosi cast the deciding vote to adjourn the House until after the midterm elections, it was a vote for tax increases. As we reported on HUMAN EVENTS, there were 39 Democrats ready and willing to vote to maintain the tax rates at the current levels. But Pelosi balked at such a choice, thus shielding her party from a tough vote in an election cycle where news grows worse for the Democrats by the day. Effective on January 1, 2011, every income bracket, not just the much-maligned “rich,” will see their taxes go sky high.]]>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:45:16 -0400<![CDATA[Jason Mattera]]>https://redstate.com/jasonmattera/2010/10/13/dem-majority-leader-ducks-question-on-taxes-n36602<![CDATA[With rallies dubbed “Move America Forward,” Barack Obama is out trying to rev up his increasingly shrinking base of supporters before the midterm elections. One talking point that seems to be a favorite of his lately is how, if the GOP does take back Congress, the nebulous forces of “special interests” will once again be in the driver’s seat in Washington. &#8220;[Republicans] can ride with us if they want, but they&#8217;ve got to get in the back seat, because we want to go forward,” Obama told a Philadelphia crowd over the weekend. “We don&#8217;t want the special interests riding shotgun.”]]>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jason Mattera]]><![CDATA[Utah]]>https://redstate.com/jasonmattera/2010/10/12/the-pac-man-cant-take-the-heat-n36583<![CDATA[Either Tim Geithner has elephant-sized chutzpah or he’s completely clueless. How else to explain his insistence that Congress follow the Obama plan to spike taxes on the top income brackets?]]>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:00:58 -0400<![CDATA[Jason Mattera]]><![CDATA[Human Events]]><![CDATA[Tim Geithner]]>https://redstate.com/jasonmattera/2010/09/28/geithner-cornered-on-tax-hypocrisy-n36395<![CDATA[After Donald Berwick&#8217;s controversial recess appointment to head the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), his allies claimed that he was preparing a &#8220;point-by-point&#8221; rebuttal to his critics. Berwick does have a lot of explaining to do, after all.]]>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:45:45 -0400<![CDATA[Jason Mattera]]><![CDATA[Health Care]]>https://redstate.com/jasonmattera/2010/09/22/medicare-czar-flees-rationing-query-n36331